Nuptse
2. Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner Makes Pure Ascent Of Nuptse In May, German climber Gerlinde Kaltenbrunner, the first woman to climb all fourteen 8000-meter peaks without supplemental oxygen, made an unusual...
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3. Ueli Steck Climbs and Paraglides Three Alpine Peaks in a Single Day Swiss mountaineer Ueli Steck is amongst the best climbers in the world and he often finds interesting projects to test his set of...
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4. Italian Mountaineer Becomes First To Climb “Second Seven Summits” At first glance, one wouldn’t think that summiting the 4851-meter (15,916 ft) Mt. Tyree, located in Antarctica, would make a list of...
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5. First Ascent of the Mazeno Ridge No climb in 2012 was as big or bold as the first ascent of the Mazeno Ridge, an 8-mile long route that culminates at the summit of Pakistan’s Nanga Parbet, the ninth...
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Star Formation in Milky Way This image displays a spectacular three-colour composite image of RCW38, obtained through three near-infrared filters. This is a region in the Milky Way at a distance of...
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Galactic Bar and Ring The NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope provides us this week with a spectacular image of the bright star-forming ring that surrounds the heart of the barred spiral galaxy NGC 1097....
View ArticleMandelbrot's Vision
Mandelbrot's Vision Mandelbrot assembled this collage as a suggested cover design for his 1975 treatise Fractals: Form, Chance, and Dimension. The profusion of straight lines is an abstract...
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The Importance of Drawing Often Mandelbrot and his peers — the drawing above was penned by Adrien Douady and John Hubbard, who made vital contributions to the mathematics which took Mandelbrot's name —...
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Becoming the Mandelbrot Set
Many people know Benoît Mandelbrot from the computer screensavers of a pre-LCD era. Others have a deeper understanding of his mathematics, the repeating geometries that earned him the sobriquet Father...
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Vesta Crater in 3D This composite-color view from NASA's Dawn mission shows Cornelia Crater, streaked with dark materials, on the giant asteroid Vesta. The data were obtained by Dawn's framing camera...
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Prominent Solar Flare A solar eruption gracefully rose up from the sun on Dec. 31, 2012, twisting and turning. Magnetic forces drove the flow of plasma, but without sufficient force to overcome the...
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Colorful Lunar Mare Galileo false-color image of the Mare Tranquillitatis and Mare Serenitatis areas of the Moon. The picture was made from four exposures taken during Galileo's second Earth/Moon...
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